Word: skid
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...Mansour, the 8th century founder of Baghdad; it was pulverized by a homemade bomb in 2005. To keep their bearings, the troops have taken to identifying routes by the names of 1980s heavy-metal bands. We drive down Bon Jovi, where the barbershop used to be, and pass Skid Row, which had the best falafel in town. At the end of the block is Poison, which four years ago was Mansour's commercial hub, lined with restaurants, shops, a gym and even a liquor store. Now every storefront is shuttered, and there isn't a car on the road...
...heart of our democracy, undermining the national security and degrading the nation's image in the world. For anyone who stepped into the Oval Office now and tried to end the war, he says, "it would be like grabbing the wheel of a car that's in mid-skid. You're just trying to work the wheel to see what pulls you out of it." But the mess we're in can't be blamed solely on the President or the Vice President or the post-9/11 distortion field that muzzled the media, immobilized Congress and magnified Executive power...
Harvard’s win on Saturday was its fifth in a row, but the Bulldogs put an end to their own skid and terminated the Crimson’s sizzling streak by taking the last game of the series...
...Princeton’s stranglehold on Ivy League supremacy, Sullivan nonetheless brought respect to the program with a number of winning seasons in the 1990s and the early part of this decade. Still, he has failed to crack .500 in the league since 1996 and has watched his teams skid to prolonged late-season losing streaks in each of the past two years...
...capabilities of the car he is driving. But crucially, says Adams, this driver will also be adjusting his behavior in response to what he perceives are changes in risks. If he is wearing a seat belt and his car has front and side air bags and anti-skid brakes to boot, he may in turn drive a bit more daringly...